I don't follow the typical profile of many women. For one I have been self-employed for most of my professional life and have made more than many men at various times. Despite that, I still have traditional values and have no interest in being like a man as much as possible. I am also steeped in liberty literature, the Constitution and true free-market economics. Not a fan of the public education system and stayed out of it as much as possible. I am pretty independent, but not totally.